Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762165AbYCAOOB (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Mar 2008 09:14:01 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756676AbYCAONv (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Mar 2008 09:13:51 -0500 Received: from khc.piap.pl ([195.187.100.11]:37181 "EHLO khc.piap.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756658AbYCAONv (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Mar 2008 09:13:51 -0500 To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Few ideas... References: From: Krzysztof Halasa Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2008 15:13:49 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Jan Engelhardt's message of "Sat\, 1 Mar 2008 00\:27\:22 +0100 \(CET\)") Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 821 Lines: 22 Jan Engelhardt writes: > So what apart from the parsability of a MODULE_MAINTAINER() tag, > what is different from authors engraving their name into a > comment at the start of the .c file? Authors != maintainers. A script could parse the tags and fill Cc: appropriately. > A number of .c files (even those that are not just built-in, but can > also be built as =m) do not have a MODULE_AUTHOR(); and copyright is > even valid when there is no apparent author name. Sure, though it's a bit harder to find who is it exactly. -- Krzysztof Halasa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/